Criminal assize calendars for Victoria. Also includes criminal assize calendars for Yale, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Clinton, Richfield, Kamloops, Quesnellemouth, Cassiar, Laketon, Glenora and Lytton, 1870s.
The series consists of 11 volumes of a bills of sale indexes and registers created by the Victoria Supreme Court between 1861 and 1956. The registers list bills of sale for chattel mortgages and conditional sales and related volumes of nominal in...
Cause books, civil pleas, Supreme Court of Vancouver Island, 1858-1870 and Supreme Court of British Columbia (Victoria), 1870-1882. All volumes are indexed. From 29 Oct. 1866 fees relating to these cases are entered in the mainland fees book.
Civil case file A 374/55 James Audain vs Robin James Dunsmuir re: damages for slander of plaintiff's book "From Coalmine to Castle". Includes transcript.
The series consists of correspondence inward created by the Victoria Supreme Court registry between 1889 and 1925. The correspondence is arranged by date and sorted alphabetically within each year by the name of the correspondent. The files incl...
Indexes to Victoria probate files and to probated wills in the Central registry. Indexes to estates probated in Victoria and to all wills probated in province. The index serves two purposes because the Victoria court registry was responsible for...
Letters of Administration granted to the Official Administrator for estates probated in the Victoria Court Registry in cases where the deceased died intestate or did not name an executor who was able to act, and the Official Administrator handled ...
Notice of appeal of case of Samuel Gray, John Gray and James Gray versus Arthur Edward McCallum, and by counter-claim, McCallum versus the Grays and Edward Mainwaring Johnson and the Ophir Bed Rock Flume Company (1894). Includes letter from John ...
The series consists of original probated wills from the Victoria court registry. The wills appear to have been deliberately removed from the original probate file and refiled in a second accession. Records in this series are arranged by probate n...
Miscellaneous published materials, some annotated, relating to operations of British Columbia courts at all levels, 1880-1970. Includes Supreme Court Rules, Magistrate's Manual, etc.
Minute books for civil and criminal cases. There are a few actions involving ships marked Vice-Admiralty Court and Exchequer Court, B.C. Admiralty Division.